Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Emotional overlap Venn diagrams
I’m hearing murmurs that the Venn diagram is making a comeback. Six Seconds…
Queuing systems and crowd engineering
There’s a science to getting thousands of people to wait in line without…
Scrolling map on receipt paper
Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long map on receipt printer earlier this year.…
Embroidered landscapes
Victoria Rose Richards uses embroidery to depict aerial views and landscapes. The above…
Illustrated guides to Olympic sports
Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the…
How Olympic athletes combat the heat
A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather,…
Clean energy from fracking
We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington…
Gunman and countersnipers’ points of view during shooting
The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to…
Cryptocurrency-funded politics
Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor…
Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model
Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…
Overlap between area codes HTTP response headers
Like many, you’ve probably wondered what HTTP response headers are also area codes…
Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…
Shifts in post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction films
Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our…
Famine prevalence in different countries
Reuters explores famine around the world through the lens of starving children in…
Genealogy of technology and power from the 1500s to present
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler created a comprehensive view in Calculating Empires.
Calculating…
Designing EV sounds
Vox explains the process of designing artificial car sounds for electric vehicles to…
